Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-17
ENGLAND AND INDIA.
PRINCE DULEEP SINGH AND THE
DANGERS OF REVOLUTION.


DANGERS OF REVOLUTION.
Who the Prince Is-The Story Of His
Marriage-England's Immense Colonial
How She Rules It-Indian Education.
Especial Correspondence.
WASHINGTON June 8.
I see that Prince Duleep Singh, Of India, is
endeavoring to create a revolution among
the Indian princes against the British govern
ment. This prince comes of one Of the Oldest
of the royal families of India, and one of his
ancestors, who died i'm 1889. left an empire,
comprising 10000, 900 inhabitants and an
army of 10000 men. This was Rungeet
Singh, one of the most remarkable men of
Indian history. Duleep Singh is short,
lark, and Asiatic in feature. He is q Chris
tian, and he is one Of the great products of
the missionary work of India. He has lived
for long time In England, and he has a pen
SIGN, think, Of f40, 600 or $200, 200 year
from the English government. This is a sort of
a bride to keep him quiet, but he has, l am
told, much of his ancestors ability, and it is
said that England regards him as an extreme
Iy dangerous character. An interview was
published with him in one Of the maya zines
about ten years ago, in which he said that he
foresaw the time when the island Of Great
Britain would be the Insignificant appendage
of gigantic Anglo Indian empire. He was
talking to an EDglishman. He said: "The
Normatns conquered you, and you absorbed
them; you conquered us and we shall absorb
you" At this time Singh thought that the
government Of England would be eventually
administered from Delhi, and that the Rus
slams would not attempt to seize India He
has evidently changed his mind at present.
and is now plotting with Russia to overthrow
the British government.
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DuIeep Singh has an Egyptian wife, and
l was told by one Of the missionaries in Cairo
the story of his courtship. 1t was a number
of years ago that he stopped at Cairo while
on his way to India, and during this time he
visited the mission schools there. He was
much pleased with the looks of one of the
girls whom he saw, and it was through the
missionaries that he became acquainted with
her. He said that he wanted q wife of his
own color and he proposed to marry her and
take her back to England with him. The
maiden and her parents consented and the
prince left Cairo, saying he would call on his
way back for his wife, My memory is not
certain, but l think his mother came with
him on his return. The marriage took place
and the Egyptian maiden became the wife of
the Indian prince. Singh gave a nice little
annual allowance to the mission school and
he kept this up, think, until a few years ago,
when for some reason or other he dropped it.
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This revolution Of Singhs may, If carried
out, deprive the English government of India,
and India is one Of the largest pearls in her
colonial crown. In lis interview which
have referred to Singh spoke Of the impossi-
bility of a small island continuing to WELD
throughout the ages such colonial empire as
England does, and in this he voiced forth the
sentiments Of q great many thinkers of the
world today. visited the Colonial exhibit
tion at London last year, and 1t seemed as
though the world was paying tribute to Great
Britain. There were rooms after rooms of
manufactures and all the products Of the
world were on show. In one hall were figures
representing the different races and peoples
under English rule in their various costumes,
and these represented nearly every race on
the face Of the globe In India alone England
rules five times as many people as there are
in the United States and these speak eighty
seven different languages. The population of
India is $50, 100000, and there are only 200, 900
English speaking people among them. With
more than ], 900 natives to one Englishman,
England will not fare we'll during a rev olution
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From late English authority I get some
striking figures of the extent of the British
empire. The colonial possessions of England
are seventy times the size of the mother coun-
'ry, and they cover in area 8, OOO, 600 of square
miles, or nearly three times the size of the ter.
iitory of the United States. The population
of these countries thus governed is over 300
0o0,0O five times as many people as we have,
and nearly nine times that Of Great Britain
The tail cannot always wag the dog, and this
big colonial dog will some time shake off its
British tail.
This colonial population has been increas-
ing very rapidly during the last twenty-fi
years both in number and in wealth, and it is
largely due to it that England holds its own
as the leading business nation of the globe
The population of the English colonies has
doubled since 1850, and the commerce with
them has risen from less than 81 ,OOO, 600, 600
to nearly $4,000, 000, 600. The revenue from
them has more than doubled, rising from
$350, 900 900 to $500, 000, 600, and the largest
advance i'll this regard has been in India In
this country alone the population has in
creased II 900 900 in twenty five years, or, in
other words, India has added to its popula-
ton i'll this time more people than are in
habitants of the United States to-day. The
colonial possessions of England are by many
tiintS as &c as luOSe Ol Inc colonies or all
the other nations of the world, and Portugal,
Holland, France and Spain come next as
colouizing countries
**~
England Of course gets the bulk of the
trade of her colonies, and though she is fur
Their away than many of the other countries
of Europe and Africa, she gets about half of
the whole exports of India. Her share of
these exports amounts to about sl50, coo 900 a
year, and in 1882 England sent over $780,
100000 of English goods into India The
most important thing, however, is the food
supplies which England gets from her colo
MES, though she is now also buying a great
deal of her raw materials for her manufact-
uries from them. India furnishes England
with cotton, coffee, jute, hides and skins,
opium, tea, grain, indigo and raw wool, and
India could give England enough Of these
materials to keep her factories going for
ages. She gets also breadstuffs from India,
and she is now bringing in a great deal of her
meat from Australia. While ] WAS in Lon
don they were selling mutton there for five